The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-10
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE I
Synopsis OF the Proceedings OF the Senate and
House. =
So, %. SENATE.


Synopsis Of the Proceedinss Of tho Senate aid
House.
- So SENATE.
Thursday was the last day for tho pass.
age OF bills and both houses were in sea.
sion until long after midnight.
In the Senate, the new election Law
passed 20 to g., The resolution exonerat:
lug Judge Cox was killed, also scheifir'a
graded high license bill.
The Daniels bill to amend the charter OF
the city OF St. Paul in regard to liouor
licenses was defeated in the senate by a
vote OF Is to II. -
The following bills were passed in the som
ate yesterday: H.
Requiring commission. merchants to Rive
nouus; relating to roadways. bridges. etc. re-
tatins to guardians and wards; relating to no.
tary r"b!ics: regulating common carriers as
amendcd: fixing tho salary of state treasurer 9
CLERK at 81 200 a year: relating to actions CON
sGrn nnH rights to real property: approprasinR
s..ooO to the mississippi river commission for
expenses for the year ending july /, 1880: to
prevent fraud in food products aud to preserve
health: amending tho laws relating to tho regis
!ering OF deeds: creating the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth judicial districts, aud sppointina
judges for the same.
HOUSE FILES.
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pirate money for certain purposes: relief of hail
sufferers: regulating employment Of convict
labor; distribute seed grain: relating to state
PARK: relating to changing names: legalizing
certain Instruments; relating to notary publics:
2. ovldins for preservation of coroners' records
s ~ St. Paul to construct road: author.
ployers to furnish seats: relating to &C.
counts of executors. ETC.. giving first
icn tor labor: relating to religious societies;
notary public; relating to statute Of frauds:
changes In independent school distric q: ad-
'ustment Of claims Of W. b: Dixie: appropriate
tton 5. chapter IL, General Laws 1878; to vail.
date certain acts Of II. Il. Church: amending
penal code: relating to sheriff OF Stevens
county treasurers: relating to Eleventh judicial
district; ofenses against property: to validate
certain deeds by married women; to provide for
county surveyors: to provide for publication Of
Minnesota reports: providing for incorporation
o. villages; to abolish process Of garnishment;
TOT the relief OF James Mccarthy; to
relieve settlers from paying certain taxes;
providing for the reimbursement OF settlers on
indemnity lands: to prevent the use of oleo-
marianne IN boarding houses. etc. except whore
hot!ce Is given to guests: relating to the Broad
way bridge. ST. Paul; relating to tho re,nuncra-
ton OF the judge of the Fourth district: relating
10 TO-. Inc exaiiz1t!on OF mortgages; providing for
Two additional judges for the Twelfth judicial
district; to reimburse S. P. Snider to the
amount OF $3.50 for expenses incurred in con-
testing his election: providing for the appoint
u
commission for Minneapolis; aDpr0priating
$1,000 for the Minnesota Forestry association.
In tho cultivation Ct forestry; relating to the
In the House, Conrad Bohn who
wanted $4,000 for work on the
st. Peter Asylum, was allowed to go into
the Nlcollet county district court for adj
iudicatIon.
Tho compromise grain shipment bill,
drawn by the grain and warehouse COM
mittee, an act to regulate the shipment of
grain and to protect Minnesota state grain
grades, came up in the house. and was
passed by 65 affirmative votes.
When the house opened Yesterday mcrn-
ing the number of bills for consideration was
as as follows: General orders, 2l7: senate
midnight this total had been reduced lis,
as follows: General orders, lS; house cal
endar, 70; senate, %.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
=, Geo:osical and natural history survey: collec-
ton OF vita! statistics: regulating railroad COM
panlcs ana increasing stock; taxing railroad
companies: issuing paid and unpaid stock rail-
roaa companies: regulating common carriers
aud crc;:ins railroad and warehouse commits
son; ;teinlll@ school holidays: amend section
~, chapter 20 General Statutes Of 1878. relat-
ing to fishways: Pablo school libraries: to fix
minimum age at which pupils may be admitted
TO public schools: chattel mortgages: state in
stitntlons: amending penal code. relating to
sunday closing OF barber shops: bill for an
act to appropriate money for higher edu-
catlonal purposes: providing for no.
tlces OF redemption from tax sales.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
10 discharge executors and administrators
and cancel their bonds; amending General Laws
1873 rciatin. to executors and administrators;
TO prevent accidents from fire on railway trains
and defining duties of railroad commissioners in
connection Herewith: logs and lumber: punish
ing drunkenness; powers of overseers: sale Of
lands III Morrison county: to authorize the COM
double taxation of mortgages on lands; protec-
lion OF streams and ponds OF water: preventing
destruction OF fish in Spring brook. Mower
to revision Of tax laws: granting eminent do
main to pneumatic tube lines; providing for
equal distribution of cars for shippers; to pre-
vent fraud by guests of hotels and
boarding houses: relating to agricultural
societies: amending the penal code; to
reimburse employe of tho state prison;